I have read the thead throught another list, so pse reply directly to me. I second Georg's statement: I add some notes on italian author rigfhts law: the right to integrity of work is -except for some works- inalienable. So a license that would require "no invariant section" would be unforceable. But the same laws allow to get some part of a protected work to be included in another one, up to a limit of 10% of original work (for text) or 100 cm² (for graphics) just giving mention of the origin. This would be the case of the help popup .... Another important note: some time a work is made for academic purpose, there are no problem in releasing it free, but putting a cover page would warrant against misappropriations. So I support the idea of recommending that strict program documentation are to be ïnvariant free", but also allow that complete works [such for example a book on how to use a certain program] are GFDL at the author chice. There is also in debian (as required for installation!) a package that is gpl, but has two documentations: one complete but very uneasy to use, plain GPL and another one more useble that is not even free [as $$] (and this is not on debian, onmly at bookshops) !
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